Christmas in July

A star vehicle for Glenn Close that also scores progressivist points for importing today’s gender-bending ideas into Victorian times

A gripping and well-made Italian film that never quite gets around to answering the biggest of the questions it raises

An inspiring account of a coach’s dedication and a high school football team’s success which rather underplays its chief insight into the importance of character

Clay Pigeons, directed by David Dobkin and written by Matt Healy purports to take place in Montana, though in fact it takes place in Movieland, or that province of it which has been colonized by Quentin Tarantino and all the Taranteenies. You know you are in this part of the world when everyone you meet…

Office Space, written and directed by the great creator of “Beavis and Butthead,” Mike Judge, is really two movies jammed into one. Up until the very funny moment at which its hero, Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) tells the Two Bobs (John C. McGinley and Paul Wilson) — efficiency experts brought in to recommend to his…

Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent